Making Expert Knowledge through the Image: Connections between Antiquarian and Early Modern Scientific Illustration (2014)
Moser, Stephanie (Author)
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 105
Pages: 58--99
This essay examines drawings of antiquities in the context of the history of early modern scientific illustration. The role of illustrations in the establishment of archaeology as a discipline is assessed, and the emergence of a graphic style for representing artifacts is shown to be closely connected to the development of scientific illustration in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The essay argues that the production of conventionalized drawings of antiquities during this period represents a fundamental shift in the approach to ancient material culture, signifying the recognition of objects as evidence. As has been demonstrated in other scientific fields, the creation of a visual system for recording objects was central to the acceptance of artifacts as data that could be organized into groups, classified as types, and analyzed to gain knowledge of the past.
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